Art in Public Space: Who Asked for It?
features 18.06.10 Wouter Davidts
A project by Lieven de Boeck for the Zuidas in Amsterdam brought Wouter Davidts in contact with the administrative levels involved with public space in the Netherlands and their motives for involving art in those spaces. It was an astonishing experience.
Read more..Your Own Little Museum
03/06/10 Juha van 't Zelfde
Inspired by the computer game Football Manager, in which you are the trainer of a top football club, Juha van ’t Zelfde dreams of the game Museum Manager, in which you get to run a top museum.
Read more..Returning to a Homeland That’s Not
03/06/10 Sofia Hernández Chong Cuy
After having lived in New York for a few years, curator Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy accepted a job as director of an art centre in Mexico City. A report on the differences between one metropolis and the other.
Read more..Where’s the Irony?
03/06/10 Tyler Coburn
Disappointment with a year of Obama prompts artist Tyler Coburn to reflect on the disappearance of irony in the political area, and society as a whole.
Potato Eaters Love Mondrian Too
12/02/10 Lucette ter Borg
Art and television have always been a painful combination in the Netherlands. Thanks to AVRO broadcasters and the Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture, television has a whole slew of art commentators, but a worthy successor to Pierre Jansen is not yet among them.
The Joke of the Great Nothing
07/01/10 Merijn Oudenampsen
After the proclamation of the end of history, now the future is in crisis as well. How do we escape this stalemate?
Design for the New Citizen
01/12/09 Guus Beumer
If we are to believe the polls, the political age of Harry Potter Senior will soon be coming to an end and a bleached-blonde half-blood will be assuming the throne. Who ever imagined that the drama of the multicultural society would reach such an apotheosis? What does it say about the idea of assimilation, represented in such exemplary fashion by our Indonesian compatriots?
Read more..Feeling It in Your Guts
01/12/09 Nat Muller
Imagine a high-end supermarket: you stroll by with your trolley whilst enjoying a cup of fair trade espresso, examining the goods, checking expiry dates, ingredient composition and place of origin and production. Your enjoyment of your shopping experience is partly derived from ‘being on the right end of things’, a moral sense of wellbeing. This is a useful imaginary exercise and the analogy with the art world (or art market) is not entirely far-fetched.
Read more..On the Wall/Off the Wall
01/12/09 Nasrin Tabatabai
In the recent post-election uprisings in Iran, all the forgotten slogans from the revolution of 1979 were shouted by a generation that had not experienced that revolution. They were appropriating them for the greater glory of their own political desires.
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